A Chinese Restaurant Fetish
Outside a Chinese Restaurant
in Orange
two German tourists swap
places to take photos
of each other smiling
& flashing the peace sign.
Curious, I ask the duo.
"You dudes into Chinese tucker?"
"No," one bloke says, “but we love the irony
of all the kitsch! You know, the dragon iconography,
the plastic shop front meals in rice bowls,
the logograms, the noxious smell of MSG.”
“Do you have a favourite, go-to meal?”
"Stuff that, we would never ever eat the shit
they dish up in regional Oz.”
The poem was recently published in the long running zine Winamop. Find four more poems here: http://www.winamop.com/gda2300.htm
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